Senior Designer, Women's Concept

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you’re choosing a different path. From day one, we’ve been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. 

We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we’re family.

About the Role

In this role, you will work in an energizing, inclusive, and creative environment focused on concepting and creating sustainable product that exceeds customers' expectations. Your goal is to partner with cross functional team members who collectively are responsible for ensuring that the product style and trend are more than worth the price for our customers. You will set the overall global design direction for the conceptual development the Old Navy Women's range. Must lean into risk taking and be customer curious!

What You'll Do

• Set overall direction for the conceptual development of the Female product lines
• Provide creative direction and coaching to develop a motivated, high performing team
• Responsible for Women's Concept Design process to include market research, macro trend, theme direction, trend funnel creation and content delivery.
• Ensure design direction is consistent with market trends as well as business strategy; interprets international/domestic concepts and fashion trends as it relates to market demands, company image and business strategy
• Develop strong internal cross functional relationships with Merchandising, Production, Visual Merchandising and Marketing to ensure product concept to store and site execution is a seamless customer experience
• Collaborate and lead others in key concept and product initiatives and their implementation

Who You Are

• Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment, with the ability to juggle multiple seasons at one time and track development deadlines
• Possess an elevated sense of style, aesthetic, and color and understand how to translate trends through the lens of the customer and brand filter
• Thorough knowledge of concept for fashion from Theme to Big Idea and Key Items
• Proven experience in high quality, clear and inspirational mood boards and trend decks; computer knowledge including Adobe Creative Suite
• Evaluate sometimes complex situations using multiple sources of information (internal and external sources) 
• Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate potentially complex in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures throughout the concept creation process.

Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
• See more of the benefits we offer.

*For eligible employees